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by rflrob 5y ago
In this case, however, there is evidently prior research using humans judging the faces that shows similar results. There definitely are all kinds of biases that could creep in from using facial recognition software, but a well designed stu
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by rflrob 5y ago
As I heard it, I’d you want to live to 80, you should eat right, exercise regularly, and not smoke. If you want to live to 100, you need to have the right grandparents and can live however you like.
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by rflrob 5y ago
This chemical could probably be made but doesn’t exist seems most accurate. https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/chemical-space-is-big...
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by rflrob 5y ago
I find the choice of the phrase “¿Como te llamas?” fascinating as evidence against “don’t do translation word for word in your head. ” Taken literally, “how (como) you (te) are called (llamas)” has no words in common with “what is your name
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by rflrob 5y ago
My first CS teacher talked about what he called Bang Sort, which is also O(n): 1. For each entry in your list, cut a straw of length proportional to the value to be sorted 2. Take all your straws in a bundle 3. Bang them gently on a flat ta
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by rflrob 5y ago
This is really program dependent. The NSF actually publishes statistics on all kinds of aspects of degree programs. Life Sciences (which doesn't have the reputation as a super speedy science program) has a median time in PhD program o
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by rflrob 5y ago
https://www.ev-volumes.com/country/usa/ Teslas make up the plurality, and often majority, of electric vehicles sold in the US.
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by rflrob 5y ago
But Kanjie Lu, Pakki’s advisor, was one of the authors. The claim that “ You, and your group, have publicly admitted to sending known-buggy patches” may not be totally accurate (or it might be—Pakki could be on other papers I’m not aware of
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by rflrob 5y ago
We actually know the primary sequence (i.e. order of amino acids) for every gene in the body. It’s trivially easy (a senior undergrad in bioinformatics ought to be able to do it with little or no handholding) to look for genes with even a v
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by rflrob 6y ago
I'm not sure that a simple sliding correlation really captures how treatments, protocols, and behaviors have changed over time. Leaving aside the winter holidays case peak (which is much more multi-modal than the others), I see two pea
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by rflrob 6y ago
> I'm not saying our drug laws are just or can't be reformed but the fact that heroin is illegal prevents a LOT of people from using it. How many people will then use, aided by these pronouncements that "Heroin isn't
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by rflrob 6y ago
I think it can as well, unless you require constraints as in the article.
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by rflrob 6y ago
Maybe I’m not clever enough, but wouldn’t the naive implementation of the naive algorithm be O(n^2) operations? Depending on whether you have a linked list or an array, traversing to or removing a random element takes O(n) time, which you n
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Building a university to deliver work-ready engineers(nature.com)
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by rflrob 6y ago
It is a different variant, but both the 501Y.V2 ("South African lineage" tested in OP) and B.1.1.7 ("UK lineage" tested in the Pfizer study you linked) have the N501Y spike mutation, which (I gather) is the residue of pa
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by rflrob 6y ago
Given that most of the vaccines were produced "at risk" (i.e. before the trials showed that they were effective), I doubt that if the FDA had approved these vaccines on the day they were designed, we would have significantly more
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by rflrob 6y ago
How “old” is a single-celled organism? I don’t know the precise details for Cyanobacteria, but it could be a relatively equal split (unlike budding, a perfectly reasonable alternative). In that case, are both offspring of a cell division th
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by rflrob 6y ago
I'm sure they would, but bear in mind that the costs are likely going to be much higher for an MS vaccine than for nCov2, due to the economies of scale that the latter has. Insurance companies will still probably love a one-time $20,0
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by rflrob 6y ago
I'm still logged in on mobile and can communicate with people from my team, but cannot log in from desktop. With so few people able to connect, it's also unclear whether Slack is eating my messages or there's just no one to r
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by rflrob 6y ago
I always thought that if I ran my own lab, I would have rotation projects be to replicate a recent result from the lab. Then, a lot of the infrastructure and support would still be there, so it would be pretty clear if the fault lay with th
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by rflrob 6y ago
There’s a lot of reason to suspect that, once the pipeline is set up and validated, tailored RNA will be a lot cheaper than CAR-T. cell culture is hard, whereas ordering a gene length DNA construct is “only” a few hundred bucks[1]. From the
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by rflrob 6y ago
I noticed there's a few cases where a th sound puns with a t sound. For example, you put the OUGHT in ROTHMEYER. Intentional due to loose matching? Uncertainty in pronunciations? Or is this a bug where the θ phoneme is represented as
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by rflrob 6y ago
Or even that people who take supplements are more likely to get a “just in case” Covid test than someone who doesn’t supplement.
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by rflrob 6y ago
A properly designed, well powered, double blind randomized controlled trial does a much better job at establishing causation than a retrospective correlation study, though.
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by rflrob 6y ago
Ronan Farrow’s investigation of Harvey Weinstein was nearly squashed by NBC, where he worked at the time. He had to take it to The New Yorker.
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by rflrob 6y ago
I’m looking for a detailed checklist that a reasonably well trained scientist in the field could follow. This should include equipment they used, and guidance on where variables should be adjusted for sample size. See https://www
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It should be considered malpractice to publish an article about a new technique and not include a detailed protocol for how to do it. It’s understandable if the article is trying to show some effect, develops the new technique as a means to
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by rflrob 6y ago
To zeroth order, it works out to roughly 30 small research groups for 5 years. At a place like Berkeley, where I did my PhD (but not in anything quantum related), a PhD student and a postdoc both cost a professor something like $75k/ye
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by rflrob 6y ago
Shootings are both extreme enough and infrequent enough (though still all too frequent) that one could plausibly assemble a nearly complete national dataset, plus they are more likely to get covered in the news/on social media. I’m not
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by rflrob 6y ago
The thing is, most romantic relationships fail. If it’s someone you met online or even a friend of a friend, you likely won’t see them that often after you break up, which is decidedly not the case for a colleague. So while it might work ou

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